§ 41-9-273 — Drains across railroad rights-of-way; railroads to grant free access; failure to comply

Upon receiving fifteen (15) days notice in writing, any railway
company, across whose right-of-way or yard any such drain, ditch
or levee is laid out shall open its right-of-way or yards, and
permit said commissioners and their contractors, agents and
employes to construct said drain, ditch or levee, across said
right-of-way or yards. For every day that said railroad company
fails, after the end of said fifteen (15) days, to open their
said right-of-way or yard, as hereinbefore required, it shall
forfeit twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to said drainage district,
to be collected in an action, as other forfeitures are
collected, or set off against any damages that have been awarded
to such company. If said railway company fails to open its
right-of-way or yard along the line of said drainage district,
drain, ditch or levee, the commissioners may, at any time after
the expiration of said fifteen (15) days, open such right-of-way
and yard along the line of said drains, ditches and levees, and
construct the same.